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Joseph Hawley (captain)
Joseph Hawley (1603–1690), may have been born in Parwich, Derbyshire, England, was the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629.〔( The Society of Hawley website retrieved on 5 May 2009 )〕〔Men of Mark in America Ideals of American Life told in Biographies of Eminent Living Americans, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., L.H.D., 1906, Volume 11-page 30 ()〕 He settled at Stratford, Connecticut by 1650, becoming the town's first town clerk or record keeper, tavern (ordinary) keeper and a shipbuilder.〔A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport Connecticut, Reverend Samuel Orcutt, 1886 Vol 1 page 290 ()〕
==Surname==
The surname of Hawley is one of locality origin, meaning; ''the one who dwells by the hedged meadow''. The Hawley family is of ancient and noble descent, a Lord Hawley being a peer in the reign of King Charles I of England, and members of this family were long seated in the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Derby in England.
The Hawleys were very prominent in the early history of the Colony of Connecticut covering a period of eighty years, members of the family had been seventy times elected to the assembly. They were among the wealthy families of Connecticut and a familiar phrase among the people of Bridgeport, Connecticut used to be: ''as rich as the Hawleys''.〔Viola E. Bray, Bray-Swart and Allied Families, New York, 1941, p. 40〕
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